Eat Pray And Love Quotes:

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Definitions, Rational, Eat Pray And Love

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Running, Divorce, Doors, Contradicting, Eat Pray And Love

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Family, Home, Care, Happy Family, Inspirational Family Love

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Sweet, Love And Heartbreak, Break Your Heart

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Life, Stars, Desire Love, Divine Comedy

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Balance, Sometimes, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Faith, Christian, Dark, Insurance Policy, Eat Pray And Love

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Life, Attitude, Fall, Jurisdiction, I Can Read

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Heart, Perfection, Silence, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

topic: Eat Pray And Love

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single, Loneliness In Life, Eat Pray And Love

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Disappointment, Greatness, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Life, Positivity, Live Your Own Life, My Own Life, Eat Pray And Love

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Heart, Humility, Feet, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Character, Devastated, Desperate Love

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Life, Emotion, Thoughts And Emotions, Eat Pray And Love

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Sad, Robots, Emotion, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Change, Happiness, Clothes, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Karma, Heartbreak, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Stay Strong, Singles, Eat Pray And Love

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Soul, Helping, Praying, Eat Pray And Love, Pray Love

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Happiness, Space, Suffering, Future Is Bright, Choosing Happiness

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Yoga, Self, Inner Peace, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Lax, My Own Happiness

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Addiction, Stories, Love Story, Eat Pray And Love, Pray Love

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Wall, Mean, Soulmate Love, Most Important Person

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Rescue, Administrators, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray, Pray Love

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

topic: Teacher, Journey, Reality, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Crumbling, Want, Getting Through Hard Times, Afraid Of Change

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.22, A&C Black

topic: Self, Finals, Infatuation, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Loneliness, Stronger, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book, Eat Love Pray

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Buddhist, Thinking, Swings, Monkey Mind, Undisciplined

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Giving Up, Love And Gratitude, Grateful For You

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Wishbones, Kickass Women

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Mirrors, Soul, Attention, Soul Life, Soulmate Love

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Play, Water, Religion, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Self Worth, Once Upon A Time, Never Forget, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Family, Tattoo, Baby, Eat Pray And Love, Pray Love

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Loneliness, Maps, Way, Loneliness In Life, Eat Pray And Love

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Heart, Silence, Mind, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Life, Depression, Fall, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Beautiful, Letting Go, Turns, Eat Pray And Love

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

topic: Spiritual, Order, Joy, Weighing, Devising

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

- Dante Alighieri

source: Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

topic: Stars, Moving, Amor, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Letting Go, Past, Joy, Eat Pray And Love